One gets older, patience is waning with age and good spirit begins to shine by their absence. Put another way, and leaving the literary niceties, there are things one would touch the balls at this stage of life.
exaggerating few days ago about the fact that any ignorant of the English language could come to minister with the only knowledge of sorry-please-thank-you . Today I will give a further twist to the British social etiquette with an example that nearly cost the life of my mobile phone.
I asked a question to an English friend and I received the following message in reply two days later: "Sorry for the late reply. I do not know. Do a search on the net. How is your wife? " (Apologies for the delay in my response. I do not know. Look for it on the internet. How's your wife?)
Wonderful. This should be reproduced in schoolbooks. It is the ABC's British interaction. Disengage the message below.
1. The first is to apologize. For whatever reason, but apologize. The answer came two days later and no longer good for anything? One apology and peace here and then glory. Ignore message had been severe, as we are foreigners when we rub minimally, we apologize and we pass by without even say "no problem " or "that's okay ." We are barbarians.
2. There are brief and respond positively. In Spain we would begin to count the case of a neighbor in the same situation that ended in tragedy. If the answer is no need to suggest something positive. Although the suggestion is stupid, as in the example. My countrymen would also do the latter but to pretend that we are not fools. Here instead is to show that brings a bit, however small (and useless) whatever. Just like the Iberian diplomacy.
3. Finally, we should worry about the person and their circumstances , but you care a damn. This is sacred.
These are the rules of the game. Whoever wants to play and know what to do, and he who does not want to accept, to Gibraltar.
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